Lives listing by occupation: inventor
- Papin, Denis (born 1647–died after 1712), French scientist, physicist, mathematician, inventor
- Perrot, Bernard (born 1619–died 1709), Italian glassmaker, inventor, tradesman
- Petty, Sir William (born 1623–died 1687), English inventor, politician, member of Parliament, economist, colonial administrator, academician
- Rittenhouse, David (born 1732–died 1796), American scientist, inventor, civil servant, industrialist
- Robison, Sir John (born 1778–died 1843), Scottish inventor, scientist, academician
- Roebuck, John (born 1718–died 1794), English inventor, entrepreneur
- Sömmerring, Doctor Samuel Thomas von (born 1755–died 1830), German physician, anatomist, anthropologist, palaeontologist, inventor
- Stanhope, Charles, 3rd Earl Stanhope (born 1753–died 1816), English aristocrat, inventor
- Thévenot, Melchisédec (born c. 1620–died 1692), French author, scientist, inventor, cartographer, diplomat
- Thompson, Sir Benjamin, Count Rumford (born 1753–died 1814), American army officer, inventor
- Villebressieu, Étienne de (died 1653), French physicist, alchemist, inventor
- Wyatt, Charles (flourished 1766–1802), English inventor
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